What psych verbs and other verbs disclose about the role of Semantic Prominence and Thematic Hierarchy in affixal selection

This paper analyses the construction of deverbal adjectives in European Portuguese, focusing on interface between morphology and semantics, specifically role Thematic Hierarchy Semantic Prominence affixal selection.Supported by paradigmatic morphology, shows that suffixes work macro-paradigms establish a relationship with specific semantic features lexical-semantic structure base verb order to construct derivative. The analysis concludes are sensitive thematic hierarchy, which is based prominence verbs’ theta-roles at paradigm. Data from psych verbs highly relevant this finding.The dedicated Professor Ana Maria Brito, who has always been keenly aware scientific knowledge not confined theory.